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ACL Question .

baiju_3 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:58:15 GMT

Hi ,

I have copied a file system to one aonther using gtar . Now in the copy , some files does not have ACL set .

Is there any way to set the ACL for the new files, just by specifying the original file as a reference .

Thanks,
BL.

Re: ACL Question .

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:06:23 GMT

Shalom,

As far as I know tar type utilities do not retain ACL information. I would recommend running the commands to set ACL after untarring the file on the target machine.

SEP

Re: ACL Question .

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:18:11 GMT

Maybe by piping a getacl command to a setacl command...

getacl old_file | setacl -f - new_file

Re: ACL Question .

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:23:34 GMT

Probably your least evil option is to use fbackup/frecover rather than gtar as fbackup will restore the ACL metadata unless specifically disabled via the -A option.

Re: ACL Question .

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:23:59 GMT

And fbackup/frecover could be used to instead of tar since it preserves the ACLs. tar and cpio don't.

Re: ACL Question .

baiju_3 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:15:27 GMT

Thanks.